The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.
Richard RohrLife is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.
Richard RohrMen and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.
Richard RohrDenial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
Richard Rohr